Destinations is the official newsletter of the Regional Public Transportation Authority and Valley Metro! Destinations is designed to provide current news and information about transit and transportation issues throughout the region. Destinations is also an educational publication which will address transit and transportation innovations happening here in Arizona and around the country.

This Technical Data notebook has been prepared for the Casas Adobes Wash located in Pima County, Arizona. The objective of the TDN is to provide discharges and floodplain limits along the CSA using better topographic, hydrologic, and hydraulic data. This is a local study and has not been submitted to FEMA.

This Technical Data notebook has been prepared for a Letter of Map Revision application for a portion of the Del Cerro Wash located in Pima County, Arizona. The objective of the TDN and LOMR submission is to provide regulatory discharge rates and floodplain limits along the wash using better topographic, hydrologic, and hydraulic data.

This Technical Data notebook has been prepared for a Letter of Map Revision application for a portion of the Trails End Wash located in Pima County, Arizona. The objective of the TDN and LOMR submission is to provide regulatory discharge rates and floodplain limits along the Trails End Wash using better topographic, hydrologic, and hydraulic data.

As the transition from the industrial age to the information age/knowledge economy continues, economic competitiveness has taken on added importance and new meanings. The concepts of competitiveness, productivity, and prosperity can be applied to individuals, companies, regions (such as metropolitan areas or states), and countries, though the meaning/interpretation of each may vary somewhat by the unit of analysis.

The condition of Arizona’s infrastructure has a direct impact on economic productivity and quality of life. As economic competition expands domestically and globally, and as the knowledge economy evolves, the importance of a strong infrastructure increases. Education, in particular, is of growing importance. Arizona’s infrastructure challenges will require commitment and creativity to meet the needs and potential of 10 million people and to ensure a positive future for the state.

A landmark assessment of infrastructure needs in Arizona was produced by the L. William Seidman Research Institute in May 2008 for the Arizona Investment Council (AIC): "Infrastructure Needs and Funding Alternatives for Arizona: 2008-2032", that addressed infrastructure needs in four categories: energy, telecommunications, transportation, and water and wastewater. The information from the AIC report is a major input to the report that follows. Other types of infrastructure — most notably education, health care, and public safety — also are analyzed here to provide a more complete picture of infrastructure needs in Arizona. The goals of this report are to place Arizona’s infrastructure needs into national and historical contexts, to identify the changing conditions in infrastructure provision that make building Arizona’s infrastructure in the future a more problematic proposition than in the past, and to provide projections of the possible costs of providing infrastructure in Arizona over the next quarter century.